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Potchefstroom is an industrial, service and agricultural growth point of North West province. Industries include steel, food, and chemical processing. The chicken industry is important, and companies around the city include Chubby Chick, Serfontein Poultry, Haagner's Poultry, Crown Chicken and Highveld Egg Cooperative.
Tjaart van der Walt (15 February 1934 – 22 February 2019) was the Rector of Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, a Bible translator and later a diplomat. Personal life [ edit ]
After obtaining the economics and law qualifications, he was offered a professorship in economics, political science and ethics at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education. In later years he focused on law. He was secretary to the commission who translated the Bible in Afrikaans and was an advisor to Totius. [5]
Potchefstroom North had 565 confirmed members from 130 families in 1952. T.H. Bolton's accepted bid for the church building was seen as beyond the congregation's means, so several cuts were made to bring the cost to £23,521, including £5,500 for the parsonage and £3,000 for the organ. The organ would be shared by the church with the PU for ...
The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (abbreviated as PU for CHE) was a South African university located in Potchefstroom. Instruction was mainly in Afrikaans . In 2004, the university was merged with other institutions to create the North-West University .
Van Rensburg was born on the farm Palmietfontein in the Potchefstroom district, the son of Willem Jacobus Janse van Rensburg and Anna Catharina Janse van Rensburg. He only received 20 days of formal school training at the Rooipoort farm school, and spent much of his youth as a cattle herder.
Bible translation, Poet Jacob Daniël du Toit (21 February 1877 – 1 July 1953), better known by his pen name Totius , was an Afrikaner poet. He was the son of Stephanus Jacobus du Toit and
Johannes Petrus Louw (31 December 1932 – 23 December 2011) was the editor of the Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament Based on Semantic Domains (UBS, 1988, with Eugene Nida); he also developed an approach to linguistics which became known as South African Discourse Analysis.